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Cub Scouts and Venturing wear a red patch with white numbers while Scouts wear a tan patch with green numbers. Sea Scouts wear a black patch with white letters. Lone Cub Scouts and Lone Scouts wear the Lone Scout emblem in place of the unit numeral. [6]
Cub Scouts is a Scouting America program available to coeducational children from kindergarten through fifth grade (or 5 to 10 years of age) and their families. Its membership is the largest of the five main Scouting America divisions (Cub Scouting, Scouts BSA, Venturing, Exploring and Sea Scouting).
Requirements for the award vary for Scouters and Scouts of different ages. [2]Cub Scouts (boys and girls in Grades K - 5) must earn the Cub Scout World Conservation Award, learn 10 words in a language different than their own, play two games that originated in another country or culture, participate in Jamboree on the Air or Jamboree on the Internet, organize a World Friendship Fund collection ...
On February 1, 2019, the Boy Scouts of America renamed its flagship program, Boy Scouts, to Scouts BSA to reflect its policy change allowing girls to join separate, gender-specific troops. On February 18, 2020, the National BSA filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and is currently restructuring its financial situation.
Boy Scouts earning their 50-Miler Award in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota Although the 50-Miler is an individual award, the requirements are performed as a group. Groups may be the troop, team, crew, or an ad hoc group made of members of various units.
The history of merit badges in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has been tracked by categorizing them into a series of merit badge types.In addition to the Boy Scouts of America, many other Scouting and Scouting-like organizations around the world, such as Pathfinders, Baden-Powell Scouts and Royal Rangers, issue merit badges or their equivalent; though they are sometimes called honors or ...
In 1911, 57 merit badges were issued by the Boy Scouts of America. Many of them exist to this day and are listed below in green. [1] Many of the others have been discontinued or reintroduced with different names. Of the discontinued original merit badges, four were offered in 2010 as part of the Boy Scouts of America centennial. These merit ...
The highest awards in other BSA membership divisions are the Cub Scouting Arrow of Light, the Scouts BSA Eagle Scout, the Sea Scouting Quartermaster Award, and the Varsity Scouting Denali Award. Using the United States Military as the model, silver awards are higher than gold awards in the BSA.